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Midway Newcastle RIP
I've kinda been meaning to write something about the end of Midway Newcastle and Mr Pick's excellent write up (http://pickassoreborn.vox.com/library/post/midway-newcastle-rip.html) has nudged me to get around to it. If you read that then there's not ( Read more... ) -
Amazing Scenes
Probably been posted all over the place by now but this is totally awesome :) -
Been a while...
Thought it was worth an entry for the first time in a while, not like nothing's been happening but this weekend felt noteworthy (plus most people probably have me added on facebook now where I add random photos etc ( Read more... ) -
Nice things
Sheesh, been a long time since I've posted anything here, pretty much just using facebook at the moment (where this post will automagically be copied to, huzzah). In the intervening time I've been doing alright at Midway (though coming to the conclusion that both Unreal and Fmod are a bit pants), now have a girlfriend (which comes under the nice ( Read more... ) -
St. Patricks Day + general life update
So if you meet someone randomly that you haven't seen for a while and they tell you "I had a dream about you last night and you had something wrong with you and were gonna die but we fell in love and got married anyway" you should probably run away right? Damn. Still, I guess it's nice to know I'm still in her thoughts when I'd kinda given up on ( Read more... ) -
New Job, New Console...
Well I got the Midway job, after thinking I'd seriously screwed up the interview. What seemed like lots of long pauses and questions on the test I just didn't have answers for. They didn't tell me on the spot so I went away fairly despondant and they called me up an hour or so later to say "We'd like to offer you a Junior Programmer position at £ ( Read more... ) -
Interview tomorrow :s
Well I thought my first interview would be with a company I'm not too sure I'd want to join, this thursday but Midway have suddenly got back and said they'd like to see me tomorrow. So with much less time to prepare and having the place I want to go to most first I'm now a little nervous. 10am in the morning as well, as you might guess I've not ( Read more... ) -
Redundancy Get!
Well I've just been made redundant (okay, about an hour ago now). I'd heard people were being made redundant the first day back so I was kinda prepared for it though it's still kinda unexpected, there's people who are more surprised than me as I've been here longer than them and have more experience/always worked late etc ( Read more... ) -
Some thoughts on the Nintendo Wii
So I wasn't really that bothered about the Wii, though I'm starting to think about it more as launch day approaches. It already seems I've encouraged a friend in work to buy one just by showing him Red Steel (he hadn't heard of it and used to be into kendo and fencing and stuff) so it seems a bit daft for me not to. Whereas the 360 and PS3 are far ( Read more... ) -
Yeeeeaaah Boyeeeee!
Couldn't really title this anything other than that after going to see Public Enemy last night :) What can I say other than that they were awesome and I never thought I'd see them in such a small venue. It was a pretty rocked up set, some versions of songs were kinda close to the album versions but others were unrecognisable apart from the lyrics. ( Read more... )